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Dan Goldhaber; Cyrus Grout – Center for Education Data & Research, 2024
Professional references are widely used in hiring decisions, yet their effectiveness remains largely understudied. We analyze structured ratings collected from the professional references of teacher applicants and conduct an experiment to see whether the ratings influence hiring managers' assessments of applicants and hiring decisions. We find…
Descriptors: Teacher Selection, Job Applicants, Productivity, Reputation
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Näppä, Anna – European Journal of Training and Development, 2023
Purpose: The study aims to explore strategic employer brand management by combining experiences of multiple organizations. In particular, the purpose is to identify what strategic management processes managers consider relevant to employer brand management for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach: This study took…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration, Small Businesses, Employers
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Woo, Etienne – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
Underlying current research on China's world-class university (WCU) policy approaches are analytical foci that privilege the agency of social actors and the problem-solving approach to policy analysis. Foucauldian poststructuralists draw our attention to policy document, which is seen as a discourse that organizes and administers society. Inspired…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Governance
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Schlesinger, Walesska; Cervera-Taulet, Amparo; Wymer, Walter – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2023
This study investigates the influence of university brand image, satisfaction, and alumni's university identification on positive word-of-mouth (WOM) intentions. The model is tested using data collected from a sample of 1000 university alumni, an important and under-researched stakeholder group. A contribution is provided by enhancing our…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Marketing, Alumni
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Lyons, Adrian – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2023
While never a loved organisation, Ofsted's reputation has perhaps never been so low. Amid a myriad of calls for reform or abolition, former HMI Adrian Lyons reflects on his 20 years of inspection with over 16 years employed by Ofsted as an HMI. He concludes that one of the biggest problems with Ofsted is its frequent change in policy, activity and…
Descriptors: Inspection, Problems, Change, Accountability
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Melike Çaglayan; Ece Çaglayan; Cengiz Acartürk – Research in Higher Education, 2025
This study analyzes the factors influencing the stakeholder perspectives on of Higher Education Institution (HEI) rankings, reporting data collected from 1232 participants through a survey method and employing the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) model and complementary models for the analyses. Our primary focus was to…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Attitudes, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics
Mohammad Ghulam Ali – Online Submission, 2025
This research article establishes the relationship between key performance indicators and the academic and research quality performance and assessment and quality assurance of any large multidisciplinary academic and research institution or university. The indicators in terms of qualitative and quantitative are being proposed below and are…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Reputation, Educational Quality, Educational Assessment
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Sweety Law – Higher Education Studies, 2025
Higher education in general and state-funded institutions especially will need to assess what an undergraduate education means in a changed geo-political socio-economic environment. For business schools, employability and future careers are stated outcomes to define a quality business education. Recent empirical scholarship has indicated…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Undergraduate Students, Student Satisfaction, Expectation
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Dan Goldhaber; Cyrus Grout; Malcolm Wolff – Education Finance and Policy, 2025
While the practice of collecting information from applicants' professional references is widespread, there is a paucity of research linking references' assessments of applicants to subsequent performance. In this paper, we examine the predictive validity of a specific type of reference-provided information: categorical ratings of teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Social Networks, Job Applicants
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Joanna Richards – Gender and Education, 2024
Since the public intellectuals of the 1960s, there has been a shift towards the celebrity academic, as subjects such as history and science have transferred into popular television entertainment, often with female academics as the presenters. Using a case study of the British media, a post-feminist lens has been applied to examine how 17 celebrity…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Females, Higher Education, Mass Media
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Duane Knudson – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2024
This study documented the associations and variability of four prestige metrics for kinesiology-related journals. Four prestige metrics for the year 2022 were collected from three database services for 334 kinesiology-related journals. The prestige measures were highly skewed and had large variability, with medical journals having the highest…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Kinesiology, Measurement Techniques, Educational Research
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Jianqing Mao; Wenbo Chen; Zhenzhen Wang – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
To investigate the relationship between Chinese university funding and academic output, we collected data on the scale and the structure of funding and academic output of 36 World-Class universities under construction in China during 2013-21 and 2014-22. Furthermore, we empirically analyzed the effects of funding scale and structure on academic…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Finance, Income, Expenditures
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Pere Ayling – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
Education-UK and British private schools more specifically are often framed as a global brand of 'world-class' quality. However, the increased competition within the international education market has meant British private schools cannot rest on their laurels but instead must continue to project their 'world-classness' in a way that does not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Reputation, Whites
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Krzysztof Rybinski; Andrzej Wodecki – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2024
Universities face tough choices about how to allocate tight budgets. A frequent question is whether a significant investment in research that is crucial for the university's position in rankings will make the university more popular and lead to higher revenues from tuition. This paper analyses how the ranking and popularity of universities are…
Descriptors: Reputation, Universities, Trend Analysis, Research
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Naomi Hodgson – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2024
In response to considerable critique of its rigour and relevance, the field of educational research has sought to prove its validity, both in terms of its scientific legitimacy and its relevance to policy and practice. One result of this has been a heightened concern with methodology, to the extent that a form of methodolatry has developed. In…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Philosophy, Validity, Research Methodology
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